VSS: Useful command-line diff?

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Published on 2009-09-02T17:49:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 3:40 UTC
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Is there a useful command-line diff utility for VSS 2005?

I tried this but if wants to compare my current directory with, it seems, some randomly picked path from the project.

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